Though Russia is warming 2.5 times as fast as the rest of the planet, some of its scientists, RAS members and public figures regularly voice denials of climate science, sowing confusion among the populace.

In May, the RAS’s Eurasian economic integration council said that Earth’s warming is primarily due to the “outflow of potassium isotope from the Earth’ depths” and linked local climate catastrophes to the “increasing emission of natural hydrogen, which creates ozone holes.”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in contrast, states that human release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane have “unequivocally” led to global warming.

Present in Russian public discourse for decades, climate deniers often have backgrounds in natural sciences, engineering, paleoclimatology, or the fossil fuel industry, experts say.

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Russians, especially Russian scientists that are some of the best on the planet, know full well what’s going on.

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    It is because we finally get better weather, warm winters, and nice hot summer. I’m not sceptical, I see that climate is changing, but I like it 🤷‍♂️

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      Do you like the increase in forest fires, flooding, droughts, influx of exotic diseases from warmer regions,… too?

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        Yeah, half of the global landmasses flooded, the other half being deserts that experience natural catastrophes on a daily basis and, as the ocean currents we know change or disappear completely, suffer from both extreme heat and cold periods, sounds just like a dream come true.

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          You do know the people in affected regions will have to flee and immigrate to your so called “blessed regions”, right? This will result in an unprecedentet refugee crisis

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            You guys are forgetting the increased scarcity of food and the loss of Wildlife. There’s the chance it’s a cascading run away effect and it only increases from now on.

            But yes also hundreds of millions of people will have to migrate, temperature extremes will cause problems everywhere, and the world will become less habitable for a very long time.

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          Oh, so the whole global instability is ok, because you personally live in a region that is “blessed”?

          So let me ask you this: can we also say that there is no housing shortage anywhere in the world, just because if you ask a few millionaires, they can’t see a problem for them personally?

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            Housing shortage a little bit other thing

            Anyway I just try to explain you scepticism of Russian people

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          I’m not sceptical, I see that climate is changing, but I like it 🤷‍♂️

          Just explain why we are sceptical

          No. You just explain why we should explain a position that moments earlier you claimed to not hold.

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          “In more than half of the cases, my experience was related to skeptics. And if you’re talking to a geologist, there is a 90% likelihood they are skeptics,” said a climate expert who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly. “Sometimes it was an aggressive stance, and sometimes just a lack of understanding.”

          Because you just don’t understand

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                To add, you can have an opinion about a scientific fact, sure. But then, you are wrong.

                This will probably not stop them from keeping erroneous thoughts and opinions, sadly…

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              I can’t stand people who apparently were raised on a diet of heavy metals (you)

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              You’re fully entitled to your opinion, but we have to agree that your opinion is wrong.

              It’s as if you said your cat has seven legs. Yes you might be fully convinced of that, and sadly you might be able to impress some people with it, and it may make you feel special, give you comfort or whatever. But it’s also wrong. You don’t actually have a cat with seven legs. That’s important as well.

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      You may like the weather changes, but you are not going to like the food insecurity and drop in quality of life when food- and goods-producing regions are unable to produce food or goods.